I heard on the news that putting a chip in your dog severely increases your pet's chances of getting cancer. I only bring this up because I had to put down my all to young 8.5 year old GSD. He was chipped and got the big C.

Anybody else hear anything to this effect.

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I think a whole lot of dogs are getting cancer and so many different things could be the smoking gun.

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It was either abdominal or spleen cancer, he was also bleeding internally, they stuck a needle in his abdomen and drew out blood. I took him to The Animal Specialty Group the said he would not make it through the night it was immediate surgery $7K and only gave him a 20% chance of success. I mercifully euthanized that night.

Next day grieving i gave online search for a replacement pup I found a 10 week old who's Pedigree included Ursus vom Batu as his grandfather, I looked at me deceased GSD Pedigree and sure enough his grandfather was also Ursus vom Batu, bought him that day. I now have a 15 month old monster but he has some of Cutter's bloodline

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It was either abdominal or spleen cancer, he was also bleeding internally, they stuck a needle in his abdomen and drew out blood. I took him to The Animal Specialty Group the said he would not make it through the night it was immediate surgery $7K and only gave him a 20% chance of success. I mercifully euthanized that night.
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That sounds like it might have been hemangiosarcoma. I lost my GSD to this too. I don't think a microchip would have anything to do with this.
Unfortunately GSDs have a high incidence of this type of cancer.

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